Inter-State Council reconstituted with PM Modi as chairman

The government has reconstituted the Inter State Council and the Standing Committee of the Inter State Council. According to the notification, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Chairman of the Inter State Council. Chief Ministers of all States and  six Union Ministers including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and  Nirmala Sitharaman are  the members of the Council. 

While ten Union Ministers including Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan, S Jaishankar and



Piyush Goyal are the permanent invitees in the Council.

As per the notification, Home Minister Amit Shah will be the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Inter State Council. Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Thaawar Chand Gehlot and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and eight State Chief Ministers will be its members. These States are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.